Thus spake Brad Shelton on Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 01:27:50PM -0500:
>
> What do you see in the logs?
>
> I frequently tail -f /var/log/mail (or whatever log-name you use for mail) to
> see if/when important mail goes out.
>
> If it's a problem talking to the remote's SMTP port, the log files will give
> you an indication.
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I ran tail -f against the user account and get this:
Feb 13 11:24:00 mperry sendmail[6880]: LAA06880: from=mperry, size=312478,
class=0, pri=342478, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
relay=mperry@localhost
This email is sitting in the mail queue right now. Here is mailq's output
on this particular one.
LAA06880* 312212 Sat Feb 13 11:23 mperry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have doctored the lower to address; but it is a real one nonetheless.
Can some kind soul explain exactly what this tail -f is telling me in
english? I see that msgid was released to basin.com with an ID number.
Is the message actually sitting in basin.com (which is my isp's smtp host)
waiting for delivery? I guess I need an email 101 lesson. This seems
rather obtuse and complex to me. The msgid block seems to say that it was
released to basin.com. I dont use basin.com's smtp services directly
because of some issues in the past.
Thanks for any help.
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Michael Perry
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